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$922.70 +7.08 (+0.77%)
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GHC vs. SCI, EDU, TAL, LAUR, DRVN, MCW, PRDO, AFYA, HTZ, and IRS

Should you be buying Graham stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Graham include Service Co. International (SCI), New Oriental Education & Technology Group (EDU), TAL Education Group (TAL), Laureate Education (LAUR), Driven Brands (DRVN), Mister Car Wash (MCW), Perdoceo Education (PRDO), Afya (AFYA), Hertz Global (HTZ), and IRSA Inversiones y Representaciones Sociedad Anónima (IRS). These companies are all part of the "personal services" industry.

Graham vs.

Graham (NYSE:GHC) and Service Co. International (NYSE:SCI) are both consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, dividends, community ranking, valuation, risk, earnings, profitability, media sentiment and institutional ownership.

Service Co. International received 198 more outperform votes than Graham when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.06% of users gave Service Co. International an outperform vote while only 62.50% of users gave Graham an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
GrahamOutperform Votes
140
62.50%
Underperform Votes
84
37.50%
Service Co. InternationalOutperform Votes
338
67.06%
Underperform Votes
166
32.94%

93.2% of Graham shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 85.5% of Service Co. International shares are held by institutional investors. 20.5% of Graham shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 5.1% of Service Co. International shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Service Co. International has a consensus target price of $88.50, indicating a potential upside of 13.46%. Given Service Co. International's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Service Co. International is more favorable than Graham.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Graham
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00
Service Co. International
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
4 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00

Service Co. International has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Graham. Graham is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Service Co. International, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Graham$4.79B0.84$205.29M$164.905.60
Service Co. International$4.19B2.68$518.65M$3.5521.97

Graham pays an annual dividend of $7.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. Service Co. International pays an annual dividend of $1.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.6%. Graham pays out 4.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Service Co. International pays out 36.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Service Co. International has raised its dividend for 15 consecutive years. Service Co. International is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.

Service Co. International has a net margin of 12.39% compared to Graham's net margin of 4.86%. Service Co. International's return on equity of 32.18% beat Graham's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Graham4.86% 5.79% 3.21%
Service Co. International 12.39%32.18%3.03%

Graham has a beta of 0.92, meaning that its share price is 8% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Service Co. International has a beta of 0.81, meaning that its share price is 19% less volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, Service Co. International had 1 more articles in the media than Graham. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for Service Co. International and 10 mentions for Graham. Service Co. International's average media sentiment score of 1.58 beat Graham's score of 1.35 indicating that Service Co. International is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Graham
9 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Service Co. International
10 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Very Positive

Summary

Service Co. International beats Graham on 14 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.

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GHC vs. The Competition

MetricGrahamEducational services IndustryDiscretionary SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$4.00B$935.38M$7.48B$18.59B
Dividend Yield0.77%9.03%3.51%4.24%
P/E Ratio18.0710.3915.9431.22
Price / Sales0.841.487.3325.74
Price / Cash8.4627.8916.4217.54
Price / Book1.032.164.154.31
Net Income$205.29M$22.13M$259.47M$1.02B
7 Day Performance4.68%5.59%5.33%6.87%
1 Month Performance-1.41%-5.79%-6.81%-6.64%
1 Year Performance30.03%-1.43%-6.73%1.48%

Graham Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
GHC
Graham
1.7553 of 5 stars
$922.70
+0.8%
N/A+28.1%$4.00B$4.79B18.0719,900Positive News
Gap Down
SCI
Service Co. International
3.1856 of 5 stars
$78.73
+0.8%
$88.50
+12.4%
+12.8%$11.34B$4.19B22.1817,600News Coverage
Positive News
EDU
New Oriental Education & Technology Group
3.4397 of 5 stars
$44.07
+2.4%
$61.20
+38.9%
-49.1%$7.48B$4.82B18.7553,100Positive News
Gap Down
TAL
TAL Education Group
3.031 of 5 stars
$10.08
+5.0%
$15.53
+54.1%
-13.8%$6.10B$2.07B53.0616,200Stock Split
Short Interest ↓
LAUR
Laureate Education
4.0588 of 5 stars
$19.27
+0.6%
$20.00
+3.8%
+34.3%$2.91B$1.57B9.9335,000Positive News
DRVN
Driven Brands
3.8217 of 5 stars
$16.20
+0.5%
$20.50
+26.5%
+11.9%$2.65B$2.34B405.009,900Positive News
MCW
Mister Car Wash
1.8431 of 5 stars
$7.25
+1.8%
$8.43
+16.3%
+7.7%$2.35B$994.73M32.966,350Gap Down
PRDO
Perdoceo Education
4.4019 of 5 stars
$25.80
-0.1%
$35.00
+35.7%
+50.8%$1.70B$681.26M11.734,500Positive News
Gap Down
AFYA
Afya
2.0615 of 5 stars
$17.96
+1.4%
$17.60
-2.0%
+5.9%$1.68B$3.30B14.488,080News Coverage
HTZ
Hertz Global
N/A$4.01
+3.1%
N/A-41.5%$1.23B$9.05B-0.4325,000News Coverage
Gap Down
IRS
IRSA Inversiones y Representaciones Sociedad Anónima
1.4327 of 5 stars
$13.87
+8.6%
$13.00
-6.3%
+47.4%$1.05B$319.75B-3.251,401News Coverage
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